In Australia, the patient was first transferred by Titanium Heart 18:05.

In Australia, for the first time in the world, the patient was able to leave the hospital with an almost indestructible titanium heart. In early February, the operation at Saint Vincent in Sydney became a revolutionary step in the field of cardiac surgery. Reporting this Saint Vincent Hospital (SVH).

The patient was about 40 -year -old man, where the heart of the titanium is a punch on his chest. Within 105 days, a metal organ with a propeller flying up, pumping blood into the lungs and supported a man’s life.

On March 6, when a donor heart was available, the titanium heart was replaced by the present time. Doctors say that the patient will not live before the transplant without an artificial heart. Before the operation, only 10-15 meters can go before a man starts drowning. Now, according to the cardiologist Chris Hemard, who presided on the surgical brigade, the patient may pioneer a active lifestyle again.

The leading surgeon Paul Jans described this as a “real breakthrough ve and confessed that when the operation was successful, my feathers thorns fled from him.

The creation of the titanium heart was the result of almost 25 years of work. Last year, the first transplant of the Bivacor company was carried out in the United States-he lived with a mechanical heart eight days before taking a 58-year-old sick donor organ. The operation in Australia first succeeded outside the world’s sixth and United States, and showed the long -term use potential of the device.

The idea of ​​creating a mechanical heart came to Daniel Timms, a Biomedica engineer after his father’s heart attack in 2001. According to TIMMS, his experience with pipes and valves in a shopping store helped recreate the human circulatory system in the laboratory.

“It was important to me for me to have become a part of Australia and participate in the first clinical studies, Tim said Timms, Timms. – ız We are very grateful to the patient and his family to rely on our technology. Their courage will pave the way to save many lives.

Bivacor’s titanium heart weighs only 650 grams and can maintain blood circulation even in an adult man during physical effort. Unlike membranes and valves and the previous artificial hearts, the Timms device has only one mobile part – a magnetic removal rotor that rotates between the two cameras without friction. This makes the device almost untouchable to wear.

The only detail that needs replacement is an external battery connected to the abdominal cavity.

In the world, less than six thousand hearts are transferred every year, while millions of people with severe heart disease are left without donor organs. If the Bivacor device continues to show successful results during the tests, the donor can be a revolutionary alternative to hearts.

This year, in Australia, as part of the artificial heart Frontiers program of Monash University, four more transplants of the titanium heart are planned.

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